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10 unusual facts about OWL


Cape Eagle-Owl

They have been rarely found roosting in cities like Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Mole rats are locally often a favorite prey item and 1 to 3 mole rats can be taken each night during the breeding season.

Edward Eggleston

His summer home, Owl's Nest, in Lake George, New York, eventually became his year-round home.

Greyish Eagle-Owl

It is found in the northern part of sub-Saharan Africa from Mauretania and Liberia east to Sudan and Somalia.

Indian Eagle-Owl

However Charles Vaurie noted that this as well as ascalaphus appeared to be distinct and not part of clinal variation.

Mindanao horned frog

There are over thirty-four bird species native to the area, of which more than half, such as the Mindanao Scops Owl, the Philippine Eagle-Owl, and the Blue-capped Kingfisher, prey on the Mindanao horned frog.

Northern Hawk-Owl

When predators (usually other raptors) fly nearby, the male will sometimes chase them away from the nest if they feel it is necessary.

Owl's Hill Nature Center

Fossil traces in Ordovician limestone and 300-year-old giant trees, vestiges of the great eastern deciduous forest that once covered Tennessee, are important collections on the site, as are pioneer trees and seasonal wildflowers.

Rollo in Emblemland

In it, a young boy named Rollo falls asleep and finds himself not in Wonderland, but in "Emblemland", a place described by Cupid as "the home of all Emblems.... Emblems are signs and symbols. I'm an Emblem, because I am the symbol of love; Uncle Sam is the symbol of the United States, and John Bull is the symbol of England, and the Owl is the symbol of wisdom...."

Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl

This species' nesting season is from December to March, however an egg has been recorded as late as June in Cachar.


Augustine Chacon

According to Old West historian Marshall Trimble, Chacon was "one of the last of the hard-riding desperados who rode the owl-hoot trail in Arizona around the turn of the century." He was considered extremely dangerous to authorities, having killed about thirty people before being captured by Burton C. Mossman and hanged.

Bangkok Post

The Bangkok Post was at one time well known among expatriates for Bernard Trink's weekly Nite Owl column which covered the nightlife of Bangkok.

Before Watchmen

In the story, Nite Owl is trained by the original Nite Owl from the superhero team The Minutemen, and has his first adventures.

Berruornis

Berruornis orbisantiqui was an early fossil owl or owl-like bird recovered from late Paleocene deposits in the region of Reims in northeastern France.

Biak Scops Owl

The Biak Scops Owl (Otus beccarii) is an owl endemic to the twin islands of Biak-Supiori in Geelvink Bay, Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), Indonesia.

Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve

The lowveld woodlands harbour purple-crested lourie, emerald cuckoo, red-backed mannikin, golden-tailed woodpecker, gorgeous bushshrike, white-faced owl and a number of raptors like white-backed vulture, gymnogene, black-chested snake eagle, Wahlberg's eagle and long-crested Eagle.

Bradycneme

It is known only from a partial right lower leg (specimen BMNH A1588), which its original describers believed came from a giant owl.

Bruce Lacey

Lacey contributed to Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in 1968 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, exhibiting a robotic owl and actors: Rosa Bosom and Mate plus a sex-simulator.

Caroline, No

The sounds that were lifted for the end of the Pet Sounds album were that of Train #58, "The Owl", speeding through at 70 mph through Edison, California.

Co Hoedeman

Then, he made a series of animated films based on Inuit legends: The Man and the Giant, The Owl and the Lemming, The Owl and the Raven and Lumaaq.

Columbia University traditions

Legend has it that the first freshman to find the owl tucked within the folds of the Daniel Chester French sculpture of Alma Mater that sits on the steps of Low Memorial Library will graduate as valedictorian.

Cybernetic Serendipity

Bruce Lacey contributed his radio-controlled robots and a light-sensitive owl.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

The series also features other children of the characters from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, such as Katerina Kittycat (daughter of Henrietta Pussycat), Miss Elaina (daughter of Lady Elaine Fairchild and Music Man Stan), O the Owl (nephew of X the Owl), and Prince Wednesday (King Friday and Queen Sara Saturday's youngest son and Prince Tuesday's little brother).

Downtown Owl

In October 2012, Gettin' Rad Productions, the production company owned by Adam Scott and his wife, Naomi Scott, optioned the movie rights to Downtown Owl.

Edwin Maffitt Anderson

Edwin Maffitt Anderson (died January 28, 1923) was a Confederate naval officer, serving on board the shipping raiders CSS Alabama and CSS Sumter as well as the master of the blockade runner CSS Owl.

Foothill Screech Owl

# Place populations in northern Venezuela, northern Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica in the Vermiculated Screech Owl (M. vermiculatus), populations in the Tepuis in the Roraiman Screech Owl (M. roraimae), populations in the lower east Andean foothills in the Rio Napo Screech Owl (M. napensis), and populations in the Chocó in the Chocó Screech Owl (M. centralis).

Frank van Harmelen

He was one of the co-designers of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the Ontology Inference Layer (OIL), and has published books on meta-level inference, on knowledge-based systems, and on the Semantic Web.

Friedrich Boie

Friedrich Boie was the author of several bird species and the hummingbird genus Glaucis, the swallow genus Progne, the cuckoo-shrike genus Minivet, the passerine genus Lipaugus, the owl genus Athene and among other genera the genus Chrysococcyx.

Fukuro

Fukuro (Fairy Tail), an owl-like character of Death's Head Caucus Guild of a Dark Guild in Fairy Tail series.

Golders Hill Park

The zoo contains a variety of animals and birds, such as Donkeys, Coatis, Rheas, Maras, Red Junglefowl, Lady Amherst's Pheasants, Red-legged Seriemas, Ring-tailed Lemurs, Kookaburras, Sacred Ibis, Cattle Egrets, Little Egrets, Eurasian Eagle-Owls and White-naped Cranes.

I Haven't Got a Hat

(His look is similar to the "Owl Jolson" character from I Love to Singa)

Ironwood Ridge High School

As the school district applied for the permit, the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl was listed as an "endangered species" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by the FWS in 1997.

José Núñez de Cáceres

he Know to all the classics fabu-lists (Aesop, Phaedrus, Jean de La Fontaine, Samaniego and Tomás de Iriarte and, consciously he influenced, especially in the use of character animals : eagle, bee, Donkey, Stork, Rabbit, Lamb, Owl, Wolf, Mule, Palomo, Raposa.

JSA: The Liberty Files

Set in Egypt, 1942, the Bat (a.k.a. Batman) has been ordered to work with two new partners, the Clock (a.k.a. Hourman) and the Owl (a.k.a. Doctor Mid-Nite), as a group codenamed the Unholy Three.

Karl Culley

The Sunday Express awarded The Owl four stars and compared Culley to both Tim Buckley and José González.

Old Woman Mountains

Numerous raptor species are likely to be found in the area; including prairie falcons, red-tailed hawks, golden eagles, Cooper's hawks, American kestrels, as well as several species of owls.

Olympic-Wallowa Lineament

The Imnaha Fault (striking towards Riggins, Idaho) is more nearly in line with the rest of the OWL, and in line with the previously mentioned gravitational anomalies that run into the continent.

Oracle Spatial and Graph

Native inferencing with parallel, incremental and secure operation for scalable reasoning with RDFS, Web Ontology Language (OWL 2 RL/EL), Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), user-defined rules, user-defined inference extensions, and an extensibility framework to plug-in special purpose reasoners, such as PelletDB, TrOWL.

Oraristrix

Oraristix brea, the Brea Owl, is the an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

Owl Woman

It was while at the fort in 1845 that topographical engineer Lieutenant James W. Abert asked Owl Woman to sit for him as the subject of a watercolor painting.

Peppermint Winter

Adam Young of Owl City wrote on Last.fm that it is about his "...own participation in snowball fights and sidewalk shoveling. Sleigh rides, present-giving and receiving and of course, the ingestion of marvelous Yuletide nutrition (or lack thereof), namely sugar cookies, hot chocolate and peppermint candy canes..."

Percy the Park Keeper

It stars Percy, & many other park animals, such as the Badger, The Owl,the Fox,the Mice and so on.

Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve

Among wintering species are: Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis L., Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus L., Eurasian black grouse Lyrurus tetrix L., western capercaillie Tetrao urogallus L., hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia L., grey partridge Perdix perdix L., long-eared owl Asio otus L., Tengmalm’s owl Aegolus funereus L., little owl Athene noctua Scop.

Puerto Rican Screech Owl

The Puerto Rican Screech Owl (Megascops nudipes) or Múcaro (Spanish via Taino) is a nocturnal endemic owl of the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Megascops genus of the Strigidae family.

Qkumba Zoo

Qkumba Zoo was a dance music trio from Johannesburg, South Africa, consisting of vocalist Levannah, dancer/sculptor Tziki and musician/producer Owl.

Rinjani Scops Owl

Seven specimens of the owl were obtained from May to July in 1896 by British naturalist Alfred Everett, who also used paid local collectors.

Rodrigues Owl

However, they evolved to a form more like an Otus little owl, and in accord with a general trend seen in insular owls, their feet were proportionally elongated and they were able to live a more terrestrial lifestyle.

Shamanism among Alaska Natives

The Haida People believed that they were protected by spirit beings such as the bear, raven, and owl.

Sofija Pšibiliauskienė

Sofija Pšibiliauskienė née Ivanauskaitė (Polish: Zofia Przybylewska, née Iwanowska) (September 16, 1867 in Paragiai, Akmenė district – March 15, 1926 in Paragiai) and Marija Lastauskienė were two Lithuanian sister writers of Polish origin, using the same pen name Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazel Owl).

Sokoke Scops Owl

The greatest population of this species of owl is in the Cynometra-Manilkara forest, which is less than one-third of the Sokoke forest.

Tawny Owl

Predators of the Tawny Owl include large birds such as Ural and Eagle Owls, Northern Goshawks, Golden Eagles, and Common Buzzards.

The Night Owl

The Night Owl is Gregg Karukas' first album and is known as some of his finest work.

The Owl Dives Through the Crescent Moon

The Owl Dives Through The Crescent Moon is the second studio album of keyboardist Travis Dickerson.

Tim Easterby

Peter Easterby also trained Night Nurse, who was successful in the Champion Hurdle on two occasions and in 1981 was narrowly denied a Cheltenham Gold Cup triumph by Little Owl, ironically also trained by Peter Easterby.

Woodsy Owl

Woodsy Owl was parodied in the 2010 South Park episode "Insheeption", as well as mentioned incorrectly as the "drug owl" the 2011 Archer episode Placebo Effect.